ABOUT ARCHITECTURE
Photographs of
Marc-Albert
BRAILLARD
Exhibition
8. 12. 2023 – 9. 2. 2024
The Fondation Braillard Architectes invites you to the exhibition of photographs by Marc-Albert Braillard under the title ABOUT ARCHITECTURE. In the words of the artist, “these photographs seek the magic of volumes, in the play of materials and materials, in light”. Come discover this magic with us during the opening, on December 7, 2023, in the Foundation’s premises.
Hours of operation :
2:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
from Monday to Friday*
*See the opening date calendar below. Dates may be subject to change.
Fondation Braillard Architectes
Rue Saint-Léger 16, 1205 Geneva
A word from the photographer:
These photographs seek the magic of volumes, in the play of materials and materials, in light. They are not an apology for the architecture of the great masters, known or not.
In the heterogeneous assemblage of meeting elements of a vernacular architecture for and by its users, indigents seeking only the precarious shelter of survival, at a minimum, the antithesis of Vitruvius, arousing the bitter emotion of a protest of the scandal of shanty towns.
In counterpoint to the learned, subtly thoughtful beauties of prestigious, refined and deliberate architecture, here are utilitarian, modest, spontaneous constructions, creating intuitively harmonious, simply natural volumes: of bricks and broc.
I would like to see from this series of photographs the feeling, the spirit of what the essence of architecture is, the most complete, ultimate expression of the social human being. This constitutes a draft, an attempt.
Marc-Albert Braillard, Thônex, August 20, 2019 (revised in August 2023)
Archi-critic, archimini
Considering the “Archimini” (minimum architectures, without architects) as examples to follow is not my intention, but on the contrary as visions, visual escapes on the habitable building which must stimulate a poetic gaze, the dream of spaces daily life, a flight towards an acceptable life, an antinomic metaphor for the slums.
A critical look, where appropriate, at the spaces, volumes, colors (contrasts of values) which condition — oh so much! — our daily life and shape our minds, our moods, our thoughts, our dreams, our violence, our tenderness, our views on others or reflections, our ardor, our coldness, our mental and physical health, our… Our being and well-being.
Marc-Albert Braillard, Paris, January 26, 2009
Thanks :
Auer Foundation for Photography, Fabiana de Barros, Michel Favre
